The Leader on the Couch
A Clinical Approach to Changing People & Organizations
1. Auflage Juli 2006
436 Seiten, Hardcover
Handbuch/Nachschlagewerk
Kurzbeschreibung
There is often a great discrepancy between what leaders say and what they do. This book sets out to discover why that is. Manfred Kets de Vries explores the notion that this failure is grounded in leaders' inability to recognize their own moods and subconscious urges, leading to subjective decisions based on hidden forces. Drawing on the Zen journey to enlightenment and the author's own experience as a psychoanalyst, The Leader on the Couch offers executives, consultants, and coaches a means to peel back the layers of self-deception and discover how inner personality affects the way we lead and manage others.
Despite the proven benefits of emotional intelligence, organizational life typically remains hostile to the world of feeling. Yet without feeling there is no passion or action. The things that matter most to us all have emotional meaning, and this is just as true in organizations as in our personal lives. In The Leader on the Couch, world-renowned business thinker Manfred Kets de Vries explores the role of emotion in personality, leadership, decision-making and group dynamics, and shows how to change today's leaders and organizations for the better by helping us understand the 'shadow side' of leadership behaviour.
Acknowledgments.
About the Author.
1. Introduction: The Clinical Paradigm.
PART ONE. ENTERING THE INNER THEATER OF LEADERS.
2. The Narcissistic Leader: Myth and Reality.
3. A Parade of Personalities.
4. Leaders and Followers: Moving Away from People.
5. Leaders and Followers: Moving Against People.
6. Elation and Its Vicissitudes.
7. The Impostor Syndrome: The Shadow Side of Success.
PART TWO. CHANGING MINDSETS.
8. Can Leaders Change? Yes, But Only If They Want To.
9. Taking the Road Less Traveled.
10. Coach or Couch, Anybody?
11. Group Leadership Coaching.
PART THREE. UNDERSTANDING THE PSYCHODYNAMICS OF GROUPS AND ORGANIZATIONS.
12. The Unconscious Life of Groups and Organizations.
13. Unraveling the Mystery of Organizations.
14. Conclusion: Creating "Authentizotic" Organizations.
Index.
"As Manfred Kets de Vries, a professor at Insead business school, shows in a new book, the psychological condition of leaders can have a profound impact on all those who work under them." (Financial Times, October 2006)
"Fascinating Freudian look at chief executives and their occasionally rather damaged psychologies. Read this ..." (FTmagazine, December 2006)
"...Manfred Kets de Vries, sets out to change people ... for the better by revealing the 'dark side' of leadership behaviour..." (Professional Consultancy, January 2007)
The Financial Times, Le Capital, Wirtschaftswoche and The Economist have judged Manfred one of the world's leading thinkers on leadership.
A clinical professor of leadership, he is Chair of Leadership Development and director of INSEAD' s Global Leadership Center. He is responsible for the top management seminar, The Challenge of Leadership: Creating Reflective Leaders and the program Consulting andCoaching for Change.
Manfred has received INSEAD's distinguished teacher award 5 times and has also held professorships at McGill University, Montreal, Harvard Business School and Ecole des Hautes Etudes Commerciales.
Author, co-author or editor of over 22 books and over 200 articles, his work has featured regularly in The New York Times, The Financial Times, The Wall Street Journal, Business Week, Fortune and many other professional press publications.
